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Friday, 21 June 2013

Shocking: ' I Hired a gang To Kill My Husband'

Nairobi Kenya: Courtesy of Daily Nation. A woman has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill her husband by
hiring gangsters who turned out to be police officers from the Flying
Squad Unit.

Faith Wairimu Maina admitted before senior
principal magistrate Peter Ndwiga that she wanted to get rid of John
Muthee Guama, her husband of 16 years and father of their two children,
as a result of “long-running domestic problems”.

“It is true I conspired to kill him because he has
been beating me and not paying school fees for the children. I am
everything in the house; his only work is to drink and move around with
other women,” said Wairimu.

According to the facts of the case read by Chief
Inspector Daniel Thuku, the couple had been experiencing domestic
wrangles over allegations that Mr Guama was having an affair with a
woman identified as Njeri Waamba.

Fearing that he could leave her for another woman,
she hatched a plan to eliminate him through a hit squad so that she
could be left with the family property.She approached an
acquaintance known as Mama Kevo with a view of hiring the hit squad, who
in turn approached a Mr Wilson Mwangi.

“Mr Mwangi immediately informed the officer
in-charge of Flying Squad who then assigned officers Moses Gitwahi,
Joseph Langat and Peter Nderitu to carry out the investigations,” said
Mr Thuku.

The three officers agreed to pose as gangsters for
hire after which Mwangi introduced them to her on June 17. They
arranged to meet at Wairimu’s food kiosk at Zimmerman estate where she
told the officers that she had earlier paid Sh40,000 to another group of
killers who failed to accomplish the mission and disappeared with the
money.

She then demanded to know if the “killers” were armed for the assignment and was shown an official gun.

“The officers agreed to accomplish the job that
evening upon receiving a downpayment of Sh40,000 with a promise that the
remaining Sh160,000 will be paid after the killing,” said Mr Thuku.

They then hung around the food kiosk and at around
4.15 pm, Mr Gitwahi received Sh40,000 through M-Pesa sent by Faith
Wairimu. She followed the transaction with a message asking if he had
received the money.

She then gave the three her husband’s two passport
photos to identify him and his phone number to call him in the pretext
that they were customers or suppliers seeking to negotiate a business
deal. That evening, the three called the husband but he did not show up.

Sniper shot

On June 18, Wairimu called the “killers” in the
morning informing them that they were together with her husband at
Githurai outside Equity Bank.

“The officers drove there and when she saw them,
she stepped a few metres away to enable them have a better shot.
Instead, the officers picked him and took him to Kasarani police station
and disclosed what was happening,” said Mr Thuku.

At the station, they called Wairimu who told them
to order her husband to disclose where he had put title deeds for their
land and then kill him. A few minutes later, they called her with
information that they had accomplished the killing and were going to
collect the balance of Sh160,000.